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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Widely used in-process key-value store

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Document store

Wide column store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Softmotions

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

quasardb

Initial release

2012

2009

1994

2009

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

18.1.40, May 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

integer and binary

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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